Dissing College Commencement Speakers a Bad Trend

:smt043:smt043:smt043 over 80 percent of the jobs in the air force and navy have application to civilian life, but don't join either one of those branches. We all know it is more important to impress good love.

 

Very ignorant and disrespectful. There are sailors on aircraft carriers serving 9 month tours as we speak. Working 12 hours a day 7 days a week. The people that work on the flight deck (maintenance personnel ect... ) have some of the most dangerous jobs you could possibly have. Goodlove proudly proclaims his own service and looks down on the many other men and women who are separated from their families and risking there lives in service of the country.

 

"College commencement speakers" becomes heated gun debate. Just another day on WWBM.COM

 

lol....a civvie ..... arm chair bad ass. fool please . your ass would bail at the MEPS station.

trying explain anything to you and beasty about military would be senseless...i would better off training rocks. at least when you throw em they would go in the rite direction.

 

i can be man enuff to say i can see how a navy and air force personnel can get upset...(for that i can apologize) but you and beasty to say its cool for kids to die is less important and an incovenience for you to have restrictions to get a gun is disgusting.

in the air force and navy the chance for them to have to be close to the enemy is rare...execpt in battleship to battleship contact. infantry....its constant....looking at the man you are gonna kill...thats constant.

you two wouldnt make it pass basic training....hell not even the meps station.

 

More people talk/think that way than you might imagine. I've dated a few military men in my life and it was appalling to hear them degrade other branches of the military. My ex's that were marines and army would talk shit 24/7 about the navy. I never knew the hatred some of those guys carried for other divisions. Maybe it's more rivalry than hatred? Either way, I hated it. Very sad and disrespectful.

 

Most of the people in the Marines and Army chose their branch because it was really what they wanted to do, they don't insult people of the other branches. On the other hand you represent the small minority of infantry; due to esteem issues hate others because you did not do well enough on your asvab to get into a more technical branch. What you fail to realize is your poor reflection of yourself is your own doing.

 

lol.....coming from you thats a complement. like i said you couldnt make it pass the meps station

hey....you can play soldier....i will send my nephews the green army men. that is close as you will get to becoming an american....

what american values sacrificing kids for less r restricitions to own a gun.
glad you guys dont go to church....will give me more ammo to diss.

 

Don't matter to you if I served or not, you only have respect for infantry.

 

Who said they are coming to get guns? I just don't see how making guns harder to get for the law abiding will make things less dangerous when people who don't follow the rules cause all thew death

 

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My Dad was in the Navy. He's proud of his time in the military and the places he visited.

To this day he jokes about the names that every branch had for the other branches.

But he respects all military. As do I.

Everyone should appreciate the men and women who serve so we don't have to. :smt023

 

It is a very bad trend that gives entitled young people the notion that they don't have to engage with anyone if there is some point of contention there. Good luck in the real world with that. If I were the president of a university where this occurred, I'd cancel all commencement speeches and let the motherfuckers march their asses out the door with their diplomas.

 

I'd be okay with that. High profile commencement speakers benefit the image of the university way more than the graduates. I've had three different graduations over the years and I have absolutely no idea who the speakers were or what they said. Granted none of them were as high-profile as Condoleezza Rice but unless that speaker has a job lined up for me after graduation, who wants to hear some random person ramble on about "life" for 45 minutes?

 

i agree the graduation ceremony is bullshit.
remember the students are customers . you have to chip in on the graduation ceremony. so with that in mind why should the students as a whole pay for something they dont want.....it is THEIR day....rite?

 

And with a few sentences, Saty brings the thread back to its origins. Thanks for that.

I agree with you that entitled kids are in a for a big wake up call when they can't sway everyone to their opinions.

I also agree with you, that commencement speakers are more for the colleges and universities who book them and not for the students. If it's not a valedictorian making the speech, I honestly could have cared less. It's hard to relate to their stories when you haven't been out in the real world. And plus they drone on and on and on. Fellow students who give speeches usually speak a lot less and say a lot more that's relevant to the average college student.

 

But like Goodlove said, and it's really good point, the kids are the consumers. The customer is always right right?

 

Twice when I graduated from college and vocational school, I did not wear the cap and gown and march to Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp And Circumstance or Felix Mendelssohn's War March Of The Priests. In fact a graduation ceremony short be brief. A short and encouraging message from the school president and then the handing out of diplomas.

 

Incorrect, a college education isn't like taking a trip to Costco. Unlike a retail experience, a college should not cater to the whims of its students (not "customers" or "consumers"). Any learning experience that is worth a damn is supposed to challenge your assumptions about everything, not protect them.

 

its true you are a customer....at oakwood u. and alabama a and m... gave crappy service at financial year after year...then one year the students withdrew (oakwood...the school mailed lettters of apology ..please come back). a and m students marched and transferred (a and m got thier shit together after the news showed the march and revenue dropped)

it should be a lesson to everybody.....let your voice be heard...
civil rebellion is good. you dont HAVE accept everything because they said so.

agree or disagree u have to respect that